March
19
I counsel you to buy
from Me... salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see (Revelation 3:18
ESV).
We have to test
everything we think we see and know by its effect in our lives. You and I may
have an enormous amount of what we think to be spiritual knowledge; we have all
the doctrines, all the truths. We can box the compass of evangelical doctrine;
and what is the effect? It is not seeing, beloved, in a true spiritual sense,
if we are not changed. Yes, seeing is to be changed, and it is not seeing if it
does not bring that about. It would be far better for us to be stripped of all
that and to be brought right down to the point where we really do see just a
little that makes a difference. We must be very honest with God about this. Oh,
would we not sooner have just a very little indeed that was a hundred percent
effective, than a whole mountain of knowledge, ninety percent of which counted
for nothing? We must ask the Lord to save us from advancing beyond spiritual
Life, advancing, I mean, with knowledge, a kind of knowledge, presuming to
know. You know what I mean. Real seeing, Paul says, is being changed, and being
changed is a matter of seeing as by the Lord the Spirit. So we will pray to
see....
It is never too late to
get spiritual sight, however blind we may have been, and for however long, if
we really mean business with the Lord. But do not forget that this is a matter
of being honest with God. The Lord Jesus said a wonderful thing to Nathanael.
Nathanael was perilously near that double blindness. At the moment when he
allowed himself to give expression to a popular prejudice, he was very near the
danger zone. He said, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" That
is a popular prejudice. A popular prejudice has robbed many a man and woman of
knowing God’s fuller thoughts. Prejudices may take many forms. Let us be
careful.... If you are in danger through your prejudice, beware; forsake your
prejudice, be open-hearted. Be an Israelite in whom there is no Jacob, no
guile, open-hearted to the Lord, and you will see.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: Spiritual Sight
- Chapter 2
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